Advanced Excel and PowerPoint — Lesson 3: Advanced PowerPoint Design and Storytelling

Learning Objectives

• Plan audience, message, storyline, and slide sequence
• Use Slide Master, themes, layouts, typography, imagery, and diagrams
• Create data-focused slides with clear visual hierarchy

Detailed Topics

• Plan audience: Plan audience, message, storyline, and slide sequence
• Use Slide Master: Use Slide Master, themes, layouts, typography, imagery, and diagrams
• Create data-focused slides with clear visual hierarchy: Create data-focused slides with clear visual hierarchy

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Transform analytical findings into a polished executive presentation.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Advanced PowerPoint Design and Storytelling in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.